Starship Troopers: Extermination Reviews
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a chaotically fun game, especially for you to play with friends and de-stress after a tiring day at work. However, keep in mind that you will encounter bugs, and I'm not just talking about the giant insects that you really wanted to find to exterminate, but also collision errors, such as soldiers stuck in rocks or floating, insects appearing out of nowhere in front of you, and very crappy explosion and flame effects, like in the early days of video games.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a wonderfully straightforward and refreshingly blunt horde shooter whose biggest stars are its gigantic alien hordes. Numerous unlockables, reasonably varied classes, diverse locations and at least four game modes provide enough motivation to get that extra round in. The typical Starship Troopers tone, the iconic bug design and the brutal action are certainly convincing, even if the direct competition Helldivers 2 is the recognizably better game in all respects. Nevertheless, Starship Troopers: Extermination is fun - also because the base-building with a slight tower defense twist is a good addition to the simple but solid game principle. Extermination's biggest problems are the server-side performance and the numerous game bugs, which get on your nerves over time.
Review in German | Read full review
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a game with great potential and definitely a lot of fun, priced lower than a typical release. Two years after its early access on Steam and now available on consoles, that potential seems within reach. The game is generally frantic and ultra-dynamic, but bugs, some design choices, and a certain conceptual limitation of the content somewhat dampen the overall experience. However, it is truly enjoyable, especially when played with friends (which is not always easy to do at the moment).
Review in Italian | Read full review
Starship Troopers: Extermination fails to pass...
Review in Greek | Read full review
Filling the shoes of a grunt in Starship Troopers was a childhood dream of mine. However, I can’t help but feel that although Starship Troopers Extermination does a decent job after a brief Early Access period, it still has its work cut out for it. Despite having a ton of things to unlock for each class, more content is desperately needed on the gameplay side. Especially if STE wants to compete in the already crowded online co-op shooter market. It’s reassuring that Offworld Industries acknowledges this through its roadmap, and I fully expect the game to change for the better with time. Despite an early stalemate, the United Citizen Federation’s future is bright with you enlisted soldier.
It’s frustrating because Starship Troopers: Extermination has a lot of cool ideas and some matches are blood-pumping spectacles that feel fantastic. Yet, the lack of structure dictating the coordination of 16 random strangers and the unfinished feel of the game brings the experience down far too often. These issues can certainly be addressed, but whether or not the game’s player base will sustain it long enough to see any meaningful updates is completely uncertain.
At its current state, Starship Troopers: Extermination feels like a game that needed way more time in development, at least for the PS5 version. While the core concept is sound and the community is welcoming, the technical issues on PS5 make it difficult to recommend.
Starship Troopers: Extermination could have been great. It even sometimes is. Unfortunately it's frustrating due to technical issues and uninteresting due to missing "wow" factor.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-operative shooter developed by Offworld Industries, inspired by the Starship Troopers universe. Announced in 2022 and officially launched in October 2024, the game is reminiscent of the 1997 film, but is closer to the militaristic and dark atmosphere of Heinlein's novel. Players, divided into different classes such as Guardian, Sniper and Engineer, must work together to defend human colonies from waves of alien Arachnids by gathering resources and building strategic defences. Each game requires careful co-operation and strategic planning, with the goal of holding out as long as possible before reaching the extraction point. The progression system allows you to unlock new weapons and skills, while the difficulty increases as the Arachnids become more numerous and aggressive. However, the game suffers from technical problems, including frame rate dips, crashes, and lacklustre insect animations, which undermine the experience. Despite the critical issues, the core of the game remains addictive, with a strong emphasis on fast-paced action and cooperation between players.
Review in Italian | Read full review
"Starship Troopers: Extermination" is rather mediocre as an overall package. The reason for this is the bumpy performance, the laughable single-player mode and the general lack of variety at release. Nevertheless, the game is captivating and even surpasses the best games in this genre in one respect: the moments when we have to hold the line against an overwhelming mass of opponents. "Starship Troopers: Extermination" does a lot of things only satisfactorily, but it captures this one aspect so well that we keep coming back to play a game. Maybe the developer Offworld will succeed in building something on this foundation, other games show that this is quite possible. Unfortunately, despite the rather low price, the competition is much further ahead than "Starship Troopers: Extermination" currently is.
Review in German | Read full review
It is, admittedly, pretty loyal to the source material, and can be fun with the right mindset and group of friends. If you can either put up with playing it on reduced visual settings in order to mitigate its optimization issues, or if you decide to just wait for a few patches, there might be some hope on what’s essentially a fun, but flawed, multiplayer shooter, one which will be constantly (and, unfortunately, unfairly) compared to a much better multiplayer game, also inspired by Starship Trooper, which also came out this year.
Starship Troopers: Extermination is more fun than you might initially think. Solo you should avoid it, but in multiplayer, the motivating shooting really gets going and keeps you on your toes. However, a few more maps and a lower price would be nice, especially as it's not exactly up to scratch technically and graphically.
Review in German | Read full review
Starship Troopers: Extermination feels bare bones, buggy (pun intended), and frankly unfinished. While the game has nostalgic visuals for the fans of the Starship Troopers franchise, this reviewer feels like it doesn’t have much else to offer.
Starship Troopers: Extraction is an amazing experience, but it isn’t perfect. The graphics are not great, the enemy AI has weird behaviours where they will run at you and almost clip and jump around making them very hard to hit and the bugs get stuck on the environment a lot but that does not take away from the boat loads of fun i am having.